Welcome to Blackpast

Welcome to BlackPast

This reference center with 8,240 posts is dedicated to providing information to the general public on African American history and the history of more than one billion people of African ancestry around the world.  We invite you to explore and use all the resources of BlackPast.

Explore African American History

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Charleton Tandy (1836-1919)
Charles Brown (Rock & Roll Hall of Fame)
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Charles Brown (1922-1999)
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Carol Brice (1918-1985)
Ruth Flowers
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Ruth Cave Flowers (1902-1980)

Explore Global African History

Colton map of Upper Canada (Later Ontario), 1855
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(1846) Lewis Richardson, “I am Free From American Slavery” 1846
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Didier Yapi (1976-2015)
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Judson Frazier Eneas (1947-2020)
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Dantès Bellegarde (1877-1966)

Perspectives in African American and Global African History

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Loren Miller: Legal Crusader in the Long Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twentieth Century
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An American Family’s Multigenerational Rise from Slavery to Harvard University
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U.S. Marshal Luke Moore at Ole Miss, 1962
Taylor wearing a dark suit and top hat and holding what looks like a folded paper.
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Running for President: George Edwin Taylor, 1904

Special Features & Resources

101 African American Firsts
Genealogy Resources
Major African American Office Holders since 1641
STEM Innovators

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